HPE StoreFabric SN2100M Switch

How can you provide fast, reliable and cost-effective connectivity in the data center with predictable performance and investment protection? The HPE StoreFabric SN2100M switches are ideal for modern server and storage networks. Supporting port speeds of 1, 10, 25, 40, 50, and 100GbE, delivering predictable performance and zero packet loss at line-rate across each port and packet size. Optimized for storage combined with efficient design provide enterprise-level performance with attractive economics and outstanding ROI. Networks built on the HPE SN2100M are fast, reliable, and scalable while also being affordable and easily managed. It supports all types of primary and secondary storage, providing consistently fair, fast, low-latency connectivity even under heavy workloads or a mix of different port speeds. This makes them ideal for storage, hyper converged, financial services, and media and entertainment deployments.

Features

Superior Performance with Future Proof Growth

The HPE StoreFabric SN2100M switches provide predictability within a storage network and consistent throughput regardless of the packet size being transferred, the mixture of ports which are sending data and even within mixed speed environments.

Provides wire-rate performance with zero packet loss across all frame sizes, avoiding any negative impact on applications that could occur with frame loss as unexpected packet loss is unacceptable in modern data centers, especially within a storage network.

Capable of forwarding 100% capacity wire rate performance with zero packet loss across all ports concurrently at 100GbE speeds while transferring data across both Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks.

Can be deployed to support 10GbE ports and is designed to be able to evolve over time to support 25, 50, and 100GbE speeds. This helps future proof your network architecture and allows for implementing significant speed changes to the architecture over time.

Optimized for Storage and Hyper Converged Environments

The HPE StoreFabric SN2100M switches provide high port density in a single rack unit, allowing for higher capacity and efficiency, simplifying scale-out environments and saving on total cost of ownership. Unique break-out cables fan out individual switch ports to multiple device ports.

With unique form factors and port counts, these Ethernet switches allow for two HPE SN2100 units to be deployed side-by-side allowing for increased density, making it the ideal top-of-rack switch.

Designed to use less electric power than competing switches, with less than 95W providing one of the industry’s lowest power draws, producing less heat than competing products allowing reduced OpEx cost.

Unleashes Flash Storage Performance

The HPE StoreFabric SN2100M switches provide ultra-low latency of under 300ns port-to-port. This is advantageous for flash storage which moved latency form storage access to the network, as well as for the burst nature of today’s software defined and cloud data centers traffic.

Provides enough internal bandwidth that there is sufficient capacity to carry all ports at 100 Gb/s bandwidths concurrently. This allows the switches to avoid head-of-line blocking which can reduce overall performance and throughput.